Technically, we don't have summer in Malaysia but whatever~


So, since the Malacca trip was cancelled, HL suggested to go Sunway Lagoon instead, just the two of us. I've always wanted to relive my childhood memories in this water themepark and moreover, there's Buy-One-Free-One promotion again (it's a mid-year promotion for both college/university students and Sunway Pals members)! The normal ticket price is RM120 per person which is freaking expensive! So this promotion sure is a good deal!


I think Sunway Lagoon has done a great job in providing convenience to customers. They have upgraded their wristbands! It's very convenient now as you can load a minimum of RM50 into the waterproof paper wristbands and enjoy cashless payment system inside the themepark! You can reload at counters located at several points in the themepark and get back your credit balances before 7PM. Futhurmore, they've also upgraded their lockers! Now it's electronic!

E-locker

After we got our locker, I changed into my new swimwear. YES, my new swimwear. Remember last time I planned a Sunway Lagoon trip with my friends (uni friends, high school friends... eventually all cancelled =.=)? I bought a set of swimsuit for the trip but didn't have the chance to wear it until now lol.

Vuvuzela

The first thing we hoped on was THE FAMOUS VUVUZELA: the world's largest vortex water ride, as claimed by Sunway Lagoon. I've wanted to try it since the first time I saw it in the advertisement when it just came out. Since it was HL's most anticipated ride of all and it was near the entrance of the water park, we went for it without warming up lol. Well, initially from how it seems in the picture, I thought it wouldn't be that thrilling. But boy, I was so wrong!

We had to share the ride with three other people (a father and his sons) because it required five people. Here is where I would say that it's nicer if you come with a bunch of friends, make it at least four people.
Coz it's kinda awkward when you're sitting inside the float with strangers... Don't know where to look =.=

The ride was very fast! HL wanted to record the whole thing but our hands had to hold on tightly to the float because the ride was quite rough! The peak of the thrill was when the ride reached a small peak (like the peak of a roller coaster but smaller I guess?) and we were thrown off the slide for a second and there was a free fall? Lol everything happened too fast before my brain can figure out what's going on. After the peak, we continued racing down the slide and into the vortex! That was where I got brain concussion LOL! And the ride was ended with a big splash on our traumatised body lol.

When I finally set my feet on the ground again, I felt that I've just gone through a car accident and I felt dizzy!
Am I too old for these shits?! Or just lack of sleep? I'll go with lack of sleep... Before I can restore my "sobriety", the father suggested to go one more time and I got dragged along by HL into that ride again =.=
Yeah, I still had same degree of concussion for the second time.

Congo Challenge [google image]

After Vuvuzela, we went for the Congo Challenge jet water slides because it was just next to Vuvuzela.
It's nothing compared to Vuvuzela (basically everything else was just a leisurely ride after Vuvuzela). But I hurt my ankle here =.= We also went for the African Pythons, the curly water slides. It was just blah...

Waterplexx 5D [google image]

Then, we went into the Waterplexx 5D theatre. I was expecting it to be like the 4D Motion Master in Genting Highland. Well, more or less like that but with more water splashing! The place were freezing! Actually it's not that cold maybe because we were soaking wet so we felt it's extra colder than the real temperature. The interior of the place was like an insect hive... or some mutated insect alien thingy's hiding place. So cold and wet... The whole point of this ride was just getting wet...

Tomahawk [google image]

Scream Park [google image]

Scream Park [google image]

I actually took these pictures in June but had no time to photoshop them so now only I post this =.=

Might take some time to load if your internet is slow like mine coz these are some quite high quality photos taken with my Samsung Galaxy S2 (o.O). Can click the photos to zoom in if you want.




This is the most gorgeous and graceful angpau in my latest collection. It's so feminine and pinkish! Every colour tone in this angpau I like and they're in a perfect combination!



And this is the back of it.





Artistic horse





Very golden dragon lol





Cute

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Cute animals

So many bad things happened lately... First MH370... Then, a cousin was involved in a gas explosion that NEARLY took his life... Then, MH17... Then, another cousin fell from 2nd floor and eventually suffered brain death...

Frankly, when MH370 gone missing, I didn't really feel sad. Probably coz there's still hope that the passengers were still alive. But when I saw the news of MH17, I don't know why I just felt like crying (but I didn't). The incident reminded me of Final Destination (what I learned from this series of movies is life is so fragile). 298 people died because of a silly mistake. A silly but devastating mistake!

When I followed my mum to visit my cousin at HTAR, I didn't expect myself to be sad coz I never talked to him before at all. But when I heard about the adults (talking like I'm still a kid haha) saying my uncle very worried about him and all... how a father worries about his child although his mouth says otherwise... Haiz... Therefore, I'm now more certain that I would take care of myself because in the end that's all my parents want.

Furthermore, I had found out that my hospital attachment starts on 1st December which means it clashes with my Sabah trip =3= So now, I guess only left my dad, mum and my youngest sis who can go... Feel sad for my parents lol... Aiks... So long never travel with my family already... After seeing all those deaths...I think I should spend every possible time with my family... That's why I go back home every weekend... Not because I home sick or what...

Pardon me if my sentences seemed unorganised or incomprehensible... I started typing this post in the morning when I had nothing to do... then went for a meeting with my supervisor... Just came back from it and realised I have to finish up this post... But I'm having a headache now, just like after every meeting with her... Coz she keep changing our workload zzz. Now waiting for her to send me back feedback of my proposal so that I can edit and submit to Turnitin!! Tomorrow have to submit the hardcopy already if I want to go back home on Friday!! Gosh I'm so tired...T.T

So I'll just end the post here abruptly haha.

Wohoo, finished my proposal presentation today! The feeling was so syok! Not only because that it's over, but also because it went really well! So much better than I'd expected!

Initially, one of my examiners was a friend of my supervisor so my supervisor said she wouldn't be harsh on me. So, I felt really lucky lah coz other people in my group got lecturers who are quite harsh. And I even took pleasure in another person's misfortune when my supervisor said that Prof Allan Coombes will rudely criticise people (one of my group members whose English is very bad got him initially). Who knew.... Just the day before the presentation, there's a change in the examiners... And I got Allan Coombes... =3= I totally could imagine a storm forming over my head at that moment.

So, I can say that I almost gave up on the Q&A session liao. However, in the morning I suddenly thought of revising a paper regarding the surfactants, probably because my supervisor said Allan Coombes might ask about surfactants because he's an expert in polymers.

Who knew he really asked about surfactants! I ngam ngam got jot down the HLB values of the surfactants this morning! Was luck on my side or what?! Other questions from him also I read from that same article LOL. Actually I didn't expect such easy and direct questions from him! He didn't criticise my proposal some more said that it's interesting! Before my presentation I saw he sort of criticised other people's proposal then I was a bit scared. Whoa... Odds were really in my favour. Some more I had stomach cramp attacks when other people was presenting and prayed hard that I won't have another attack during my presentation... And it didn't happen! Wow and luckily his slang was not a problem for me ah... I guess watching English dramas is a beneficial hobby haha.

Well, not to forget my supervisor... I think we owe her a debt of gratitude! She helped us to think questions based on the examiners we get! Who else's supervisor will do that?! Well, there's a lecturer who brought chocolates from Paris for his students... I admit that I'm jealous. But I would not exchange my supervisor if I'm given the chance to! Hahaha.

All these days of headaches, stomachaches, sleep deprivation... are nothing now! Phew... I can finally relax for a while. Have to continue doing my proposal tomorrow. =.=




When I reached home today, I was greeting with this!






But the one I brought to my hostel with me is still like this!




Hmm, I guess the seeds need some sunlight. Some more there were the whitish thingy like mold or fungus growed on my seeds =.=

I was so busy this week that I couldn't blog although I really wanted to. First of all, I'm trying to grow a little forest from fruit seeds.

Second, I went back to the doctor and I think he officially diagnosed me as asthma. Not the serious type of asthma though. Haha, coz miraculously my cough disappeared after taking the oral asthma medication. So, he gave me a turbohaler!




Wow, after all these years of inhaler training, I got to use it myself o.O My roomie said I wouldn't have to worry about OSCE if inhaler counselling is gonna be assessed liao.

Hmm okay suddenly I lazy to blog liao so that's all!

Pissed? Sad? Disappointed? I don't know what I feel now. I've been feeling pissed for a whole week. Trip is cancelled. I even feel foolish saying this for the umpteenth time in this blog.

Why give people hope/promise when u cannot keep it? At first, everyone confirmed can go, then one by one started to bail on me. One said lost her phone, one said suddenly got family outing, one cannot be reached, one after seeing others bail she also wants go back hometown. SERIOUSLY?! I find it hard not to be angry.

I'm the only who is gan jeong for this trip (probably coz I'm the one booking and paying for the hotel). I don't understand why can't they bother to check their FB inbox everyday. Probably coz they don't see this as an important matter. Busy? I'm busy too. I'm already very stressed over my research proposal presentation and yet I still have to organise this whole trip but in the end have to be cancelled.

Since last week I asked them whether want to buy bus tickets or not coz very hard to get during Hari Raya. They couldn't give me an answer until now when I voiced my urgency because Agoda will charge my credit card the full amount on this Monday. To be fair, there's 2 person: Shar and LY have been cooperative (if you see this, I really thank you both for being supportive). Others I have to sms/call them one by one and the answers I got were "NO".

I felt stupid organising this trip, especially after my parents told me that it's hard to organise a trip with a big group. I should've known this. Really stupid. If I didn't remember wrongly, this trip wasn't my idea at all in the beginning.

I thought of bearing the cost of cancellation fee which is just RM40++ myself but after what I've gone through today with my research group mates, I learned that I must treat myself fairly.

(The incident was a long story: Supervisor chicken pox. Have to rehearse our presentations using telecommunication. One group on Monday, another group on Tuesday, presentation on Thursday. A girl from Group 1 said she needs more time to edit her presentation slides so she prefers Tuesday. Another girl from Group 2 who is in the same clique with her prefers Tuesday too because she wants to go back hometown. Group 2 girl feels its unfair to "zhao" Group 1 girl, but she paiseh to say because they're close friends. So she asked me to start a voting on FB. Actually everyone else doesn't matter which day, only they 2 mind :/ If me I probably will "zhao" Group 1 girl but I think Group 2 girl just wants to be fair. And I helped her because I think fairness is one of my values too.)



So I don't care anymore.

Actually, I already felt like not going since the day one of them bail. And I already had feeling that this trip will be called off again eventually. I felt like just straight away cancel larh why so susah? But I didn't want be the one who causes this trip to be cancelled. I didn't want to break my promise. So, actually I'm quite relieved that we cancelled this trip because I was afraid that I might not be enjoying the trip.

I swear I won't organise any trip again. Don't want to do this stupid thing again. Even made me missed so much of my favourite show "Dad where are you going" because was contacting people here and there when the show was showing on TV. And no mood to watch it afterwards. Sien I might have to rewatch.

Hmm, I guess I have to be angry more often because that's how I get the courage to stand up for myself o.O

Hoo... After typing all out I feel less angrier but when I think of it again I feel angry again :/ And wow, I didn't eat a proper dinner today but I don't feel hungry because 我被气饱了！



OK. Talk about happy things now.

It's my first-time experience having meeting through webcam with a lecturer today lol. Can see her face full with chicken pox lol. But she's so good la.... I think so far I've not heard of any lecturer who is more helpful than our supervisor. She read through each of our proposal and presentation slides (there are 8 of us, mind you) and taught us from writing skills, presentation design to referencing! Walao I didn't expect so much from our supervisor lo. Some of them made a lot of mistakes in doing their proposal but she patiently corrected and explained every mistake to them! I know these are actually supervisor's tasks la (according to our handbook), but I don't see other supervisors do that. Some very cincai and just say OK to anything!

I'm quite touched. She's got chicken pox and also has to take care of her baby but still willing to help us. Some more when the Internet lagged she even called us and spoke with us through phone for like, 1-2 hours? Haih, I must put more effort into doing my literature review since my supervisor so good if not I will feel sorry lol.


PS: Our supervisor speaks Chinese to us which is quite funny coz normally lecturers speak English to students lol.

Hoo... So I'm officially a final year pharmacy student now... And soon going to do research in the IMU research lab! Normally we look at lecturers and postgraduate students who work in the research lab like they're from a higher hierarchical level (well, they ARE). From what I've known, there are some other groups that don't get to work in the research lab and they have to work in the lower grade MDL labs instead! :P So... Quite proud lah haha... but mostly it's because of our supervisor who got us workbenches in the research lab lah nothing to do with our capabilities or what hehe. However, working in the research labs with those high-tech instruments comes with great responsibilities and risks T.T   We are going to use the homogeniser which costs RM 90k and the zetasizer which costs RM 200k   =___=  The past experience of my housemate who nearly broke a centrifuge worth RM 20k made me even scared of using those expensive instruments!

Anyway, one day my mum read from the newspaper that cough that wouldn't go away might indicates lung cancer so she said better go check lol. So my dad brought me to see a doctor who is sort of a specialist and I did lung X-ray. Before I went I was seriously paranoid that I might have cancer =__= Just like last time when there was an outbreak of SARS and I had to go to the doctor because I had fever =___= OMG I even kind of imagined what would my reaction be when I find out I have cancer then proceeded to think that my life already so meaningless why not just have cancer and die. Then I think I cried. LOL Well doesn't matter now since the doctor said my lung is perfectly fine, eh?

The doctor gave me asthma medicines though! Said the cough might be caused by allergy which I was not surprised at all. What I was kind of surprised was that he gave me medicines for ASTHMA. Sounds like quite serious like that but I guess it's common hahaha. He gave me Ventolin, prednisolone and cough syrup (the cough syrup is not really necessary I think :X) Being a pharmacy student I'm kind of reluctant to take corticosteroid, knowing all the side effects that it will cause in long term. But then, no choice haiz the doctor told me to try for one week first then see how it goes. I also think that the Ventolin caused my hands to shake! I hope I won't have to take it anymore when I start doing my research! LOL This reminds me of an event happened few semesters ago.

Once I was weighing something in front of a lecturer and a group of course mates and I was literally shaking! Maybe I was nervous haha. Then when I was pouring the thing into an instrument, I dropped the whole plastic thingy that contained the thing into the instrument =__= And had to call the lab technician to take it out. Then, the lecturer was kind of like angry? She asked me why my hand like that, I said sometimes my hands will shake. Then she told me with a very serious tone that during Semester 7 don't choose lab-based research, choose survey instead. Funny thing is, the lecturer is my supervisor now!!! LOL I don't think she remembers this.

Speaking of which, I think we've chosen the right lecturer lol. Still remember last time we (me and HY) hesitated so long coz the lecturer warned us that she might scold us kao kao if we do inexcusable things during our research. And from how we've known her from her lectures in the early semesters, she didn't seem like good in explaining things. So we were skeptical about her capability to help us in our research :X But I guess we chose the right lecturer then! So far, she was very helpful compared to other lecturers that I've heard of and she even helped to check our proposal! FYI, there are 8 of us in the group! I think this is the largest number of students under one lecturer! We don't even have a co-supervisor lol. And the JC committee approved our research which means they think our supervisor can handle us well?

If I'm not wrong, we are the group that finished doing our proposal earliest =___= That's good coz I feel kind of "shuang" seeing my fellow housemates stress over proposal lol.


Haih, overall Semester 7 seems like less stressful than other semesters that have final examinations. Coz I don't have to keep telling myself to study every day. But now have to keep doing literature review lol. Anyway, I'm excited to start doing lab work! But fear of doing literature review for dissertation lol!